[henry81]

I have a Palm Pre.. I got one early on, was a huge fan, but now I fully believe the platform is dead. All you ever hear about is iPhone or Android. That aside, the Palm experience totally sucks. It would be amazing if the phone didn't freeze on me while trying to view a webpage and listen to an MP3 at the same time. No, that's asking too much

[wazoox]

I have a Pre plus, uptime is in weeks (out of updates, I had to reboot it only once in 6 months), and the interface is really far ahead for multitasking, and I multitask a lot with it; mp3 + web + contacts + an app or two all the time, and it rarely hiccup if ever.

[hexley]

Umm, don't mean to burst your bubble but the iPhone could do all that from day 1, sans "multitaskin"g. Is this word now becoming as meaningless as "bricked"?

[wazoox]

Wow, apple fanboi? I was talking of the fact that my Pre plus is fine, not commenting on what other platforms do or don't.

That, and I despise Apple Walled Garden anyway so the qualities of the iPhone are moot. And iOS 4 multitasking sucks, ergonomically. They messed up, even multitasking on jailbreaked iPhones 3.x was better, though far from as neat as the WebOS version.

[megaman821]

I don't understand, this article is talking about the future of Palm devices. You don't think a faster OS and newer hardware will fix a couple of freezes when multitasking?

[billybob]

The question is "who will they fix them FOR?" If the parent poster's experience is typical and nobody cares about this OS, improvements to it are irrelevant.

Personally, I'd like to see Palm OS stay in the fight. I like the stack UI concept they discussed here, and anyway, competition is always good.